Coachmans is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.

Coachmans

WRENN ID
bitter-gravel-wagtail
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 May 1988
Type
House
Address
Coachmans, Planche Road, Thurston
OS grid reference
TL 930 643
Coordinates
52.24331, 0.8258
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Coachmans is a house dating from the mid 16th century. It has one storey and attics, featuring a three-cell plan with both lobby and cross entries. The building is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a pantiled roof that includes an axial chimney, which was rebuilt in 20th-century common brick, and another external chimney on the right. There are 19th-century plaintiled gabled dormers and mid-20th-century small-paned casements. The house has two boarded entrance doors from the 19th century.

Inside, a double-ogee moulded binding beam indicates that there was once a larger chimney where the current one is located. The cambered lintel over the hall fireplace is likely a reused feature. There is some close-studding present, and it is said that a blocked diamond-mullioned window is concealed in the gable of the service cell on the right.

Local climate

Coachmans sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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